The Promise
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Last published Thu, May 9, 2019
Find the Wizard. Break the curse. Save mom. On Willa Greene's short laundry list of things-to-do, trapped and failing certainly aren't things she'd like to add. But if she doesn't find the tarot-wizard soon (well before he finds her) her mother will vanish-poof-into thin air.
Tracking down the tarot-wizard is easy-just follow the circus. But what Willa isn't prepared for is a world much unlike her own. One where living, breathing, people can have their souls and worlds sealed into gold-gilded arcana cards at the wizard's behest.
To save her mother, Willa must trespass into the wizard's world, all while avoiding having her own soul sealed. But as if the wizard weren't enough of an adversary, another arises. A certain shadow magician cursed to remain in the cardworld forever...unless he tricks someone into taking his place.
For Willa, failure is worse than death; it is life without her mother.
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